Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 09 Apr 2026

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04/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:09

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
25	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
29	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
30	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
35	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
45	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
46	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
49	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
53	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
55	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
59	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
68	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
69	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
70	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
71	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
72	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
74	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
75	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
76	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
79	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
83	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
84	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
85	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
86	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
87	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
93	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
94	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
95	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
96	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
97	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
98	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
99	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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